Windows 7 is still installed on millions of computers – Geeko
Microsoft’s operating system released in 2009 seems to still have a lot of followers around the world, despite the fact that it no longer receives a security update. According to the latest NetMarketShare study, Windows 7 is still installed on 20.41% of computers around the world, which represents millions of PCs.
Windows 7’s market share was still 22.77% last month. There is therefore a decrease in the number of users of this OS, in favor of a recent operating system, but this decrease is still quite slow. However, Microsoft has taken the necessary measures to warn its users of the end of its support for Windows 7.
Two major reasons
This persistent presence of the OS on the operating systems market can still be explained by a “legitimate” reason. The fact is that a number of electoral machines are still running on Windows 7. These have been kept as they are for use in the 2020 US presidential elections. Microsoft had also announced that it would continue to secure support for Windows 7 only in the United States and a few other countries with elections slated for 2020.
In addition, migrating to a new operating system is not necessarily within the reach of all users (we explain how). It’s also been a cost since Microsoft’s offer to migrate to Windows 10 expired. Windows 7 is above all very popular in businesses and not all of them necessarily have the means to upgrade all of their machines to a newer OS.
For comparison, the latest version of Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 10, is installed on 64.04% of Windows machines, which represents more than 900 million computers. Finally, in the global market, Windows occupies 87.67% of the market share.
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